The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 43
... Light unsufferable, And that far-beaming blaze of Majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heav'n's high Council-Table, To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside; and here with us to be, Forsook the Courts of everlasting Day, And chose with ...
... Light unsufferable, And that far-beaming blaze of Majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heav'n's high Council-Table, To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside; and here with us to be, Forsook the Courts of everlasting Day, And chose with ...
Page 45
... light, And though the shady gloom Had given day her room, And hid his head for shame, As his inferior flame, 8o He saw a greater Sun appear The Shepherds on the Lawn, Or ere the point of dawn, 85 Full little thought they then, That the ...
... light, And though the shady gloom Had given day her room, And hid his head for shame, As his inferior flame, 8o He saw a greater Sun appear The Shepherds on the Lawn, Or ere the point of dawn, 85 Full little thought they then, That the ...
Page 67
... light or “half-light in both poems as a sort of symbol of the aesthetic distance which the cheerful man, no less than the pensive man, constantly maintains” (Poems, p. 139). The octosyllabic couplets keep their simplicity even after ...
... light or “half-light in both poems as a sort of symbol of the aesthetic distance which the cheerful man, no less than the pensive man, constantly maintains” (Poems, p. 139). The octosyllabic couplets keep their simplicity even after ...
Page 70
... light, The clouds in thousand Liveries dight; While the Plowman near at hand, Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land, And the Milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the Mower whets his scythe, And every Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in ...
... light, The clouds in thousand Liveries dight; While the Plowman near at hand, Whistles o'er the Furrow'd Land, And the Milkmaid singeth blithe, 65 And the Mower whets his scythe, And every Shepherd tells his tale Under the Hawthorn in ...
Page 85
... light,” the chariot of Hyperion and the reins of day and the aureole radiating a flood of glory (even assuming that those gifts were harmless) bestowed no grander gifts. Therefore, however humble my present place in the company of ...
... light,” the chariot of Hyperion and the reins of day and the aureole radiating a flood of glory (even assuming that those gifts were harmless) bestowed no grander gifts. Therefore, however humble my present place in the company of ...
Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus